Musings on Starters, Mains, Desserts and Second-Helpings…

This was definitely the longest hiatus in We Are Never Full history (bear in mind our history is only a measly 27 months) but, finally, we’re back! (exactly a month to the day since we went away) You may not be as excited as we are to be slowly getting back to normal, but if you visited us right now in our new apartment you’d notice how far from normal our living conditions are.

After almost 3 weeks of eating take-out and restaurant meals, we spent our Labor Day doing hard labor. A day in a North Korean Labor Camp would’ve felt better to my legs and feet than a day trying to set up shop in our new place. Oh, and a tip to anyone moving after accumulating five years of crap (along with a fear of throwing things away), PAY PEOPLE TO PACK FOR YOU or at the least pay people to move everything you own for you. Maybe it was our youth, maybe our naïvete, maybe our pride, but we really thought it was a great idea to pay movers to move only our furniture because we could “get the rest ourselves”. Let’s put it this way, my thighs look like this after walking box after box (after box) up to our new 3rd floor walk-up over the past few weeks. Oh, and did I mention my three-days of shredding a 30-gallon garbage bag full of “I’ll get to shredding it next weekend” bills/credit card statements/etc. Guess what, Amy? 2004 was five years ago – you didn’t shred it “next” weekend.

But, the craziness is almost over now. In a few weeks, we’ll be more settled after we buy a few more pieces of furniture and put those last few clothes away. The kitchen, of course, was the first thing we worked on. Our new kitchen has a bit less cabinet space than our last one and a smaller refrigerator, which isn’t great given the many, many dry goods and countless bottles of condiments we own, but we’ve just about found a home for everything, and we’ll be okay going forward if we make sure to limit our worst excesses at the grocery store.

So,the first meal we made in our new apartment was a simple, seasonal farewell-to-summer cream of corn and crab soup with a chile emulsion using much of what is readily available in our neck of the woods. Corn is coming out of our wazoo and is about 15 cents an ear; the bay at my parents’ shore house is full of crabs; our pepper plants are almost ready to die, but have given us many, many spicy cayennes, cowhorns and red hots. And the yucca, well, it’s not exactly local and may not be as easy to get depending on where you live, but substitute a potato and you’re good to go. Strangely, a soup was actually very satisfying since the weather, coinciding uncannily the start of the school-year, has actually turned kind of cool.

Thanks for sticking with us through our hiatus. We hope you really enjoyed your summer and we can’t wait to start cooking some cool-weather meals for you. Until then, crack open a cold one and enjoy the last few days of summer.

Welcome back, and OMG that soups looks amazing! If I didn’t have a plan for the sack of organic corn on my counter, I might be making soup, like right this minute. At 10 in the morning. ‘Cuz, well…..I love corn. And soup.

Aaaaaahhh, you always bring a smile to my face!!! Only humans step on the same stone twice… do you know about this saying? Well, I moved twice and packed my things twice without any help… but, I tell you, next time the guys in charge will do it for me!

The puree looks simply delicious… I’m craving for comfort food :D. Sooooooo glad to be back visiting your place guys♥

I did miss you actually, your irreverent humor, originality and honest voices in this funny world of food blogs.
I had already planned to throw money at other people to do the legwork the next time we move but a reminder is always good.
Soup looks really great, a joyous carnival of colour and flavours for your return…welcome back kids